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Sega Dreamcast Gets Rogue RPG Conversion

Posted by simoniker on from the dangerous dept.

MilenCent writes "Oh rapturous jubilation! Some saintly homebrew Dreamcast programmer has ported Rogue, that wonderful, magnificent, beautifully malevolent progenitor of PC RPGs with randomly generated game content, to Sega's undead console. The history of Rogue is long and storied, and the genre of Roguelikes (which includes a certain game you may have heard of) has found a new platform to settle on."

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  1. Ports by illuminata · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I hear a bunch about how great the Dreamcast homebrew scene is, but can't they do better than ports and clones? Are there any good homebrews that don't fall into either category?

    So an old game can play on a different platform. Yeah, that's nifty, but where's my original games? Is this the best that they can do?

    Because if it is, what's the point?

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    1. Re:Ports by MC+Negro · · Score: 3, Informative

      Yeah, that's nifty, but where's my original games? Is this the best that they can do?
      Here. Nothing particularly awesome, but still homebrew none the less.

      Of course you know that the Dreamcast can emulate damn near anything, making it ideal for people who play a lot of ROMs. While I personally have never done it, I can imagine that plenty of people are getting use out of the Dreamcast strictly for that purpose.
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    2. Re:Ports by FatalTourist · · Score: 2, Insightful
      Why? Play emulated stuff on your TV for cheap. No modchip needed. No NES/Genesis/etc cluttering up the apartment.

      In regards to homebrew: think about how many awesome homebrew PC games there are (don't reply with a list unless it contains about 300 games). The DC homebrew scene is a fraction of the size of the PC scene, so I guess the number of excellent games rounds off to about zero.

      Anyway, I have enjoyed the emulated games/ports for Dreamcast.

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  2. sweet by fiftyvolts · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I love these games. I find it hard to believe that modern RPG while graphically amazing cannot obtain the level of detail that the rouge like games have. Nethack will always be my favorite, but I have to try rouge on DC :D

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  3. RTFA by jbellis · · Score: 3, Informative

    "No save support."

    Doh!

    1. Re:RTFA by dasunt · · Score: 3, Funny

      "No save support."

      Just play for 15 minutes more -- that should eliminate the need to save the game.

  4. And of course... by dk4 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Blizzard's Diablo borrows heavily from Rogue/Hack/Nethack/Moria